A dialogue session was held on Sunday under the theme of “towards flexible and sustainable health systems in Africa”.
The session was held within the framework of the 1st Africa Health ExCon which is attended by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.
A number of specialized experts in the fields of health and pharmaceuticals will take part in the session.
Zimbabwe’s Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga said Africa needs support to build its health sector.
During the dialogue session, he said “the coronavirus pandemic has given us a very important lesson.”
He noted that many services were not available in Africa during the coronavirus pandemic.
He added that Africa needs support in order to have trained experts and deal with conditions that affect its people, especially with regard to water-borne diseases.
He underlined the importance of benefiting from Egypt’s experience and how it managed to deal with waterborne diseases.
He stressed that Africa should realize self-sufficiency in all things, especially in the medical domain, urging Africa to manufacture medicines and vaccines.
He said Zimbabwe seeks to have commercial partnerships with Egypt in pharmaceutical domains in order to confront the challenges besetting Africa.
an American Nobel Prize laureate, who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus – said Egypt has to be proud of its great achievement in combating hepatitis C virus.
He said comprehensive work – starting from the political leadership, the health mechanism in Egypt and medicine factories – was behind this great achievement.
He added that despite the outstanding American financial potentials, it did not launch a campaign against hepatitis C virus.
He said that Egypt’s experience in the domain will be transferred to other countries.
Ugandan Minister of State for Health Anifa Kawooya Bangirana said the coronavirus pandemic has largely affected the health systems of all world countries, especially developing states.
She added that the social and economic conditions were also affected, referring to inequality among people.
She said the conference is meant to ensure sustainability of health services, noting that no country can achieve this alone.
She added that there is a need for balancing efforts and resources of African states, stressing that people cannot live in security without taking care of these resources.
She stressed the importance of exerting more efforts to secure health services and boost the immunity of all people.
She urged countries to accelerate economic growth after the coronavirus pandemic and ensure sustainability of health systems.
Egypt’s Presidential Adviser for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag-Eddin voiced thanks and appreciation to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi for the achievements which Egypt witnessed over the past period in the healthcare domain.
Tag-Eddin said the achievements realized in the healthcare domain are unprecedented in the Egyptian history.
He noted that what happened in Egypt after the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis proved that Egypt was adopting a righteous thought and steel political resolve.
He added that the health sector is not only an issue of medicine and hospitals, however it is also affected by the issues of wheat plantation as well as upgrading the infrastructure of roads and electricity.
Presidential Adviser for health affairs Mohamed Awad Tag-Eddin said Egypt is free from malaria, noting that the average of tuberculosis cases in Egypt is 11 in every 100,000 people.
He noted that Egypt highly appreciated the strategic directives of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, especially the establishment of a medical city to localize modern medical industry.
He stressed confidence that President Sisi will work on saving Africa which suffers from diseases and famine.
